My photography attempts

Another thing I've been doing lately is playing around with the camera. I bought some quilt backing fabric, and it makes a perfect backdrop for pics. I need to work on lighting but here's some from the other day. Did you know dogs smile? For real. The pics below show Zoey's attitude and how she "smiles". To those who don't believe that dogs smile, it looks like I have a really vicious dog here, but seriously, it's her showing off for the camera.

And she put herself in the pictures. It was originally my attempt to get 5 yr pics to print for grandparents of just K, but the dog kept pouncing onto the fabric and hamming it up. Simple things that make me happy.

Sleep

I need sleep. I wrote yesterday about what Monday night was like. Last night I went to bed at the same time as Dennis, which was around 8:30, and slept great for a while. But then I was awake at 12:30 and saw about every 1/2 hr from that point till 3 when he got up for work. I then was wide awake and proceeded to make him something for breakfast, pack his lunch and talk a little which probably made him a little late. He's the boss so a little late is no big deal but I felt a little bad about that. After he left, I tried to sleep again but no success. So I came online and caught up on email, facebook, blogs, etc till around 5am. I tried to nap but just laid there thinking forever. 6:30 I finally got tired enough to drift off and next thing I know Kristopher is asking me if we're getting up yet. 6:55. Surprisingly, I've got things done already today. It's just starting to catch up with me a little now.
I have so much on my mind lately. Somehow I have to shut that off and maybe the sleep will happen. We're getting closer to the end of the month. Maybe my appt will make me feel better.

Ok, off for the day. Must get something accomplished.

Having one of those days

It's after 10:30 here and I haven't done anything productive at all. I pulled my hair up when I woke up this morning and haven't attempted getting dressed or looking human for the day. And I've been up a while. I had a lot I planned to do, but somehow lost the energy and will power to do any of it.
Kristopher didn't sleep very good last night and was up way too early today. He says he just couldn't sleep. I was up till 11 then took till almost midnight to fall asleep, then his waking started around 3:30-4am. My butt is dragging. I wish he would nap again. Nap time hasn't happened since he was 2 though. And if he would nap, he will never sleep tonight. So I just suffer for today. I don't drink coffee, or any caffeine anymore for that matter. So no easy pick me up here. Maybe I will cave on the caffeine thing and go buy a pepsi. I'm hoping for early to bed tonight.
Ok so it's now 10:45. I really need to get up and moving around to wake up somehow. This is crazy. Maybe we will take a walk at the park. It's really pretty today, and we're finally in color here too. I'll leave you with a picture from yesterday. We went up to the top of the mountain behind our house and took some pictures.

Fall trip

This weekend we took another trip up to Ricketts Glenn State Park. I was trying to catch it in peak color but we're still at like 50% and I was afraid if we waited, we wouldn't have a nice weather as this weekend was. So, we had a free night from our beach trip. We stayed Saturday night and relaxed at a hotel, and then Sunday morning got up and went to the park. It was chilly but we had a great time. Here's a few of the pics from the trip. Most of you are on facebook so there's about 30 more on there to check out if you haven't already.

Success!

We went shopping for new clothes for K yesterday. Which by the way, he's completely skipped a size. Went from size 5 to 7! My kid is going to be out of the little boys section before he even starts kindergarten at this rate!!!!! But anyway, the reason he skipped 6's apparently is because I need that size now! Yep, for real! (well not boys size 6 but you get the point.) I finally tried on some new jeans to buy for me, and I am officially in size 6! I haven't been in size 6 in ummm 7 years maybe. It's been a long time! And it's so so exciting because when I finally started this whole weight loss journey my 14's were too tight and I refused to go bigger. And I'm 5'4" so that was a lot for me.
It's taken me a while and I lost it pretty slowly because it's mostly just been a few changes here and there. At this point, I got to where I never thought I'd be again, and I'm happy. I just need to work a little on toning and losing the mommy belly that is still left 5 yrs later. So, my new focus is if I can't be pregnant, this is my focus. I've done a lot already! I'm happy!! And, I think I'll finally break down and buy 2 pair of VS jeans while I'm at it. I love those and I've been saying I'm not buying any "just in case" during the study and well, no more of that. Maybe I'll fall into that lucky category that buys a whole new wardrobe and then gets pregnant and can't fit in it again. Ha. I'll play with that. I dare that to happen! Won't hear any complaints here.